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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2017
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Mark Austin, Roswell, GA (US);
Shahab Azmoudeh, Dallas, TX (US);
Joseph Dorsey, Jr., Allen, TX (US);
Victor Nilson, Dallas, TX (US);
Christopher Sambar, San Antonio, TX (US);
Jerald Weber, Newcastle, WA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A content filtering system and method includes receiving in a network device in a network from a user device, a user selected set of rules identifying a set of URLs to be blocked. The set of rules are loaded into the network device. The network device receives from the user device a request to access a specified URL. A determination is made at the network device whether the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules. If the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules, then the specified URL is blocked.